{"id":1869,"date":"2006-06-04T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/thank-god-for-all-this-hardship\/"},"modified":"2006-06-04T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T17:11:49","slug":"thank-god-for-all-this-hardship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/thank-god-for-all-this-hardship\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank God For All This Hardship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/24hour\/religion\/story\/3299578p-12157853c.html\">Religion &#8211; Indonesians see disasters as God&#8217;s will &#8211; sacbee.com<\/a> By CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press Writer<\/p>\n<p>Battered by one calamity after another, Indonesians have found a resilience that has amazed even foreign aid workers. It&#8217;s rooted in <strong class=\"highlight\">a widely held belief that the troubles were sent by God, either as a test of their love for him or as punishment for straying from his teachings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Human beings are greedy, selfish and too arrogant,&#8221; said Prapto Warsito, a villager who lost his father and house to the country&#8217;s latest disaster, Saturday&#8217;s earthquake on Java Island that killed more than 5,800 people.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n&#8220;The almighty one has decided to teach us a lesson,&#8221;<\/strong> he said. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These (disasters) all come from Allah,&#8221; he said Monday. <strong class=\"highlight\">&#8220;We must be grateful and tests like this should be met with resolve and humbleness.&#8221;<\/strong> <span class=\"mine\">[mjh: sounds like a battered wife or abused child who says, &#8216;he only beats me because I deserve it.&#8217;]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion &#8211; Indonesians see disasters as God&#8217;s will &#8211; sacbee.com By CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press Writer Battered by one calamity after another, Indonesians have found a resilience that has amazed even foreign aid workers. It&#8217;s rooted in a widely held belief that the troubles were sent by God, either as a test of their love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/thank-god-for-all-this-hardship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank God For All This Hardship<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-atheists-pulpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}